Effective June 2026

Privacy Policy

FACTS

WHAT DOES WATERMAN BANK DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

Why?

Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing. Federal law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your personal information. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do.

What?

The types of personal information we collect and share depend on the product or service you have with us. This information can include:

  • Social security number and Employment information
  • Account balances and Transaction history
  • Credit history and Payment history


When you are no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice.

How?

All financial companies need to share customers’ personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their customers’ personal information; the reasons Waterman Bank chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.

Reasons we can share your personal information
Does Waterman Bank Share?
Can you limit this sharing?

For our everyday business purposes – 
such as to process your transactions, maintain your account(s), respond to court orders and legal investigations, or report to credit bureaus

Yes

No

For our marketing purposes – 
to offer out products and services to you

Yes

No

For joint marketing with other financial companies

No

We don’t share

For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes – 
information about your transactions and experiences

No

We don’t share

For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes – 
information about your creditworthiness

No

We don’t share

For non affiliates’ to market to you

No

We don’t share

QUESTIONS?
Call 815-264-3201 or go to www.watermanbank.com

Who We Are

Who is providing this notice?

Waterman Bank

What We Do

How does Waterman Bank protect my personal information?

To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with federal law. These measures include computer safeguards and secured files and buildings.

We also maintain other physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect this information and we limit access to information to those employees for whom access is appropriate.

How does Waterman Bank collect my personal information?

We collect your personal information, for example, when you:

  • Open an account or
  • Apply for a loan or
  • Give us your contact information or
  • Show your driver’s license or
  • Make deposits or withdrawals from your account


We also collect your personal information from others, such as credit bureaus, affiliates, or other companies.

Why can’t I limit all sharing?

Federal law gives you the right to limit only:

  • sharing for affiliates’ everyday business purposes – information about your creditworthiness
  • affiliates from using your information to market to you
  • sharing for non affiliates to market to you


State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing. See below for more on your rights under state law.

Definitions

Affiliates

Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and non-financial companies.

  • Waterman Bank has no affiliates.
Nonaffiliates

Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

  • Waterman Bank does not share with nonaffiliates so they can market to you.
Joint Marketing

A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market finacial products or services to you.

  • Waterman Bank does not jointly market.

Other Important Information

For Illinois Customers. We will not share personal information with nonaffiliates either for them to market to you or for joint marketing, without your authorization.



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